Del Kathryn Barton: the more than human world

NEW YORK, NY | albertz benda is thrilled to announce renowned Australian artist Del Kathryn Barton’s the more than human world, the artist’s fourth solo show with the gallery. The more than human world coincides with the release of the latest monograph of Barton’s work with text by Laura Raicovich, Daniel Browning, Ulanda Blair, and an interview with Alexie Glass-Kantor.

With this powerful return to the United States, Barton will present two new bronze sculptures and a series of new paintings celebrating the the divine feminine as a dynamic, raw, and evolving energy. Barton masterfully blends traditional painting techniques with radically lush patterns and emotional iconography in an otherworldy medly of figures.

Magical mergings are afoot in Del Kathryn Barton's work. Her central figures, often placid in the midst of the radical potential and actual transformations they are experiencing, are mediums and seers, not ready to divulge their wisdoms but alive and vibrating in stillness. They each rely on their own myths and riddles to be puzzled over, visual and poetic anomalies of contradiction and strength. - Laura Raicovich

The more than human world is a sweeping and intimate exhibition that explores emotion and connection as vibrant, life-giving forces. This new body of work showcases Barton’s signature rich color palettes, intricate detail, and deeply emotive symbolism, immersing viewers in fantastical portrayals of motherhood, femininity, and desire.

In each work there is a unique expression of a deep interconnectedness between different emotional, spiritual, and universal realms. The result is a lush, symbolic dream world, rich in pattern, myth, and emotion—an invitation to consider intimicy and love not as sentiment, but as a source of power and transformation.